Headlight-door remover and replacer



-' 1 633 528 ,June 21. 1927. w. HELLER HEADLIGHT DOOR REMOVER AND RBPLACER V Filed March 27. 1926 J M Heller Patented June 21, 1927.

n mren STATES 1,533,52s PATENT ()F'FICE.

JOHN W. HELLER, OF ARLINGTON, KANSAS.

HEADLIGHT-DOOR REMOVER REPLAGER.

Application filed March 27, 1926. Serial No. 97,934.

is to provide a very simple appliance whereby the door'may be evenly press-ed inward at a plurality of points and whereby the door may be turned to the left and removed. A further object is to provide a device 01 this character which is adapted, without adjustment, for slight variations in the diameter of the headlight door and which is further adjustable for larger variations.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.

My invention is illustrated in the acconr panying drawings wherein:

- Figure 1 is a face view of my door remover applied to a headlight door;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Figure 1;

Fig. ure 1;

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary diagran'unatic scc tional view enlarged to show divergence of the two rivet engaging members; Fig. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary eleva- 3 is a section on the line 33 of Figtion of the insidetace of one of said rivet engaging members.

Referring to these drawings it will be seen that my improved door remover comprises a longitudinal extending rod which at one end is rigidly connected to a wider relatively flat elongated strip 11. This strip at one end projects beyond the member 10 a relatively slight distance and at its other end projects a relatively long distance, this last named end being apertured as at 12. The opposite end'ot the member 10 from the member 11 is screw-threaded and carries upon it the inner and outer nuts 13, itbeing understood that the outer nut may be in the form of a wing nut.

Coacting with the members 10 and 11 is an L-shaped member consisting of a longitudinally extending rod 14 paralleling the rod 10, and a strip 15 having the same width and length as the strip 11 and permanently joined to the member 1 1 and extending at right angles thereto. This strip 15 of these members dinally GXiGHClID Q gYOOVOS 16 on their inner is apertured above its extremity tor the passage of the rod 10, the nuts 13 engaging on each side of the strip 15. The rod 1 1- fits loosely within or has sliding engagement through the opening 12.

The inner i aces of the lower ends of the.

strips 11 and 15 are formed each with a pair oi grooves 16 opening upon the ad acent ends of the strips. These grooves are trans versely curved or concave, and open upon the ends of the strips 11 and 15 respectively.

The strips 11 and 15' are not parallel to each other transversely but a slight twist is given to these strips so that the strips are about 1/32 nearer to each. other at one lateral margin than they are at the opposite margins, as shown in Figure 4.

The grooves 16 are designed to accommodate and receive the rivets on the headlight door. Mounted upon the rod 10 is a cross bar 1'7 having roundedend-s and having any desired width such, for instance, as the width of strips 11 and 15 and this cross bar at its middle is formed to swing upon the member 10 and extend below said member. Thus this cross bar may have a medially deflected portion 18 through which the rod 10 will.

pass and constituting a pivotal support itor' this'cross bar 17. a a

It will be seen that this door removing device comprises two opposed and approxie mately parallel members 11 and 15, that both are formed with longitucontronting faces, that the members 11 and 15 are adjustable toward or trom each other by means of the nuts 18 on the rod 10, and that this rod is'disposed adjacent the like ends of bothstrips or members 11 and 15 and adjacent the innerends of the grooves It is also pointed out that the outer face of the part 17 or cross bar, that is, the face which bears against the face of the door, is approximately in the same plane with the ends of the rod 10 and that thusa four-point bearing is secured against the face of the door, namely. at the two ends of the rod 10 and adjacent opposite ends of the transverse bar 17. I

In the use of this device the cross bar 17 luv:

is adjusted upon the rod 10 so as to extend diametrically across the door of the headdoor, then pushed inward against the door by leaning against the rod 141 until the dedoor namely, the ends of the cross bar 17 and the ends of the rod 10. After the door has been pushed inward sufficiently then the device is to be turned to the left which will turn the door to the left thus shifting the pins 19 of the door ring out of the bayonet slots 20 of the headlight casing and then the door becomes detached from the headlight body but yet is held in the grooves 16 by the rivets of the door. By slightly defleeting the extre; ities of the members 11 and 15, as illustrated in Figure 4-, the device may be used on two or more sizes of door without making an adjustment of the nuts 13 or in other words, without shifting the member 15 and its rod 1 1 with the rod 10 and member 11. Obviously when larger adustments are to be made the nuts 13 are to be turned so as to carry the member 15 inward or toward the member 11 or outward and away from member 11. Obviously the member 17 will be shifted to a point midway between the members 11 and 13 before they are adjusted so that this member 17 will extend diametrically across the headlight door and bear at opposite points thereagainst.

The device is simple, may be readily adjustedto all sizes of headlight doors and will quickly remove the door without any damage thereto.

I claim 1. A device for removing headlight doorsfrontin faces 'rooved the rooves extend- I) b 7 h ing inward from the like ends of the mem- 's, a rod adjustably connecting said members'and disposed adjacent the inner ends of the grooves the ends of said members remote from the rod being adjustably engaged by a second rod approximately parallel to the first named rod, and a cross bar mounted upon the first named rod midway between its ends, said cross bar extending at right angles to the rod upon which it is mounted, one face of the cross bar being disposed approximaltely in the same plane as the ends of the rec.

8. A device of the characterdescribed con'iprising a relatively fiat strip having a rod engaged therewith and extending atv end of the strip having longitudinally extending grooves on its inner face opening upon the adjacent end of the strip, said rod being screw-threaded at its end remote from the strip and having a pair of nuts thereon,

a second relatively flat strip having an aperture adjacent one end thereof through whichsaid rod passes, said strip being engaged on opposite faces by said nuts, said strip at 1ts end remote from the r d having a second rod extending parallel to the first named rod and passing loosely through an opening in the first named strip, the'inner face of the second named strip having grooves extending from the first named rod to the adjacent end of the strip remote from said first named rod, the strips being disposed in slightly diverging relation, and across bar pivotally mounted upon the first named rod and extending at right angles thereto, the cross bar beingadjustable along the rod and having one face thereof at its ends disposed in the same plane as the ends of said rod.

1 i. A headlight door remover and repl'a'cer comprising two confronting clamping strips adapted to engage the periphery of a head light door between them, the confronting faces of said strips adjacent one end of each strip being formed with a plurality of grooves adapted to receive the rivet heads on the door, and a rod extending approximately at right angles to the plane of the strips and engaged with one strip and passing loosely through the other strip and having nuts engaged'on each side of the last named strip whereby said strips may be drawn together, and a cross bar pivotally mounted upon the rod and extending at right angles thereto and adapted to bear against, oppositep'oints on the 121C001 the headlight door. I In testnnony whereof I hereunto aliix m signature. I 1

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